Uighur
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- Alternative spelling of Uyghur
Uighur (plural Uighurs)
- Alternative spelling of Uyghur
- In 507 a Chinese family, the Ch'iu, replaced the Juan-juan dynasty as rulers in Turfan; and under them the aristocracy adopted Chinese customs; and the form of Buddhism was entirely Chinese. In 640 direct Chinese rule was extended here, and even the Uighur Turkish conquest did not end this Chinese character in the eighth century.
- By the sword or by diplomacy, through terror or persuasion, Temüjin had subdued or enslaved a hundred peoples. Merkid, Xixia, Naiman, Kirghiz, Tatar, Georgian, Chinese, Khitan, Uighur, Bulgar, Persian - all, shamanist, Moslem, Buddhist or Nestorian Christian, all trembled at the mere mention of his name.
- The Chinese government has reportedly detained more than a million Muslims in reeducation camps. Most of the people who have been arbitrarily detained are Uighur, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic group primarily from China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang.
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